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Define 'Traitor'.

1. a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.

2. a person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.

I don't recall this as a topic of discussion before, so here goes.

Should we recognize different types of treason? Not all of the traitors are motivated by the same things.

Some are motivated by simple greed. Selling the country out for money.

Some are motivated by the lust for power, over people, institutions, and influence.

Some are motivated by doctrine, my imagined way of government is better than yours.

Some are motivated by religion, my religion has government as all or part of its function.

Some are motivated by simple blind, amorphous hatred of America for what ever reasons.

Most, I'm certain, have a combination of these motives.

Do we recognize that some treason is an honest expression of a desire to make a better world under (name your system)?

Should the same punishments apply equally to all of them?